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G. H. WERNER.-

IGB'TONGS. I NO. 329,523. Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV H. WERNER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

lCE-TONGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,523, dated November 3, 1885 Application filed September 10, IP85. Serial No. 176,752

J0 all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUSTAV H. WERNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice- Tongs, of which the following is a specifica tion.

My improvements relate to iceitongs; and they consist in the combination of a saw and a splitter with a pair of ice-tongs to make an improved combination-tool.

To more fully describe the construction and operation of my invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing, in which thefigure represents a perspective view of a pair of icetongs with my improvements shown.

A represents a pair of ice-tongs. B and G are the two arms. One of these arms, B, I provide with teeth or along its outer edge to form a saw, and is intended to be used for sawing ice. The other arm, 6, I construct to form a blade, having its sharp edge b outward, and is intended to serve as a splitter to split the ice after it is sawed. The tongs them- (No model.)

selves will serve to take hold of the ice with andto carryitby, and have the points orprongs c c and handles d d, as usual.

Thus myimproved tongs form and serve as three useful and necessary tools combined in one, and are specially intended for boardinghouses, restaurants, saloons, and families.

The tool may be made of wrought or malle' able cast'iron, as desired.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of a pair of ice-tongs, A, with the saw-shaped arm B, substantially as herein shown and described, to form a new combination-tool, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a pair of ice-tongs, A, with the saw-shaped arm B and bladeshaped arm 0, substantially as herein shown and described, to form a new combinationtool, as and for the purpose set forth.

GUSTAV H. WERNER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. MEISNER, FREDK. GOTTSOHALK. 

